Life
The Dalai Lama, when asked what surprised him most about humanity, answered, "Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present: the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived."
"The real existence of an enemy upon whom one can foist off everything evil is an enormous relief to one's conscience. You can then at least say, without hesitation, who the devil is; you are quite certain that the cause of your misfortune is outside, and not in your own attitude." -Carl Jung
"We serve the world by finding out what feeds us, and, having been fed, then share our gifts with others." -James Hollis, from What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life
"We occupy a space of our own creation--a collage compounded by bits and pieces of actuality arranged into a design determined by our internal perceptions, our hopes, our fears, our memories, and our anticipations." -Willard Gaylin, writer
A person becomes most human, often against his own will, when he begins to founder, when he is derailed or deprived of order. -from the movie, I Served the King of New England
The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself. -Henry Miller
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be quite still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet. -Franz Kafka
For two personalities to meet is like mixing two chemical substances: if there is any combination at all, both are transformed. -Carl Jung
What we call "I" is just a swinging door which moves when we inhale and when we exhale. -Shunryu Suzuki
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. -Winston Churchill